Johno7439 Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Since New Year I have developed a keen interest in the Mesopotamia campaign.Having just finished reading The First Iraq War - Britain's Mesopotamia Campaign ( AJ Barker) and having already read Kut 1916, Courage and Failure in Iraq (Patrick Crowley), does anybody have any further reading suggestions on the Mespot campaign? All suggestions gratefully recieved! Ewan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 You could try Ron Wilcox's "Battles on the Tigris". I put a review on Amazon quite some time ago: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battles-Tigris-Mesopotamian-Campaign-First/dp/1844154300/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329572112&sr=1-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonmate Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Ewan There is a large 4 volume work on the Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 with the Naval and Military Press,but quite expensive.I have copied some excerpts in the NA Library at Kew,and it is a very thorough and detailed account of the campaign. You might get to find one in a Library near you ! Sotonmate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan_NW Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Hello Ewan http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diary-Old-Contemptible-Baghdad-1914-1919/dp/1844151352/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1329573241&sr=8-1 It contains a terrific first hand account of serving in Mesopotamia. Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djcrtoye Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Thanks for the books mentioned as my great granfather served with 1st Seaforths. So I can read about what happened there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBully Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Glad that this topic has been raised again. Sort of gets overlooked and the hardships that the British and Indian soldiers endured must have been horrific., particularly after the seige of Kut ended. I am particularly interested in the attempts by the Royal Flying Corp to provision Kut by air. Are the aforementioned books worth consulting in this respect ? Regards, Michael Bully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johno7439 Posted 18 February , 2012 Author Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Thanks chaps for the recommendations! I served in Iraq in 2003, and it wasn't until I started taking an interest in the Mespot campaign that I realised I had been where the troops had gone before me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James A Pratt III Posted 18 February , 2012 Share Posted 18 February , 2012 Archives.org has a number of books that deal with Mespot in WW I incleding: In the Skies above Baghdad, and one book that deals with a british officer captured at Kut who manages to escape that i can't remember the name of. A.J Barkers Book was printed earlier on as both "The Neglected War (UK) and The ******* War (US) (I am not making this up) There are also the books "The siege" and "Kut Death of An Army" which are not as good as the above also on the net is the book The Revolt in Mesopotamia" by Haldane (Ithink this is the title it was mentioned on this site) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 18 February , 2012 Admin Share Posted 18 February , 2012 A recent account is From Eden to Armageddon Roger Ford http://www.amazon.co...t/dp/0297844814 I tend to agree with the review on Amazon in that it's a bit of a struggle at times perhaps one to get from the library but there is a preview on Amazon Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ander11 Posted 19 February , 2012 Share Posted 19 February , 2012 Hello Ewan Here is a link for books on Mesopotamia http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/World_War_I_%28Bookshelf%29#Middle_East best regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbo Posted 19 February , 2012 Share Posted 19 February , 2012 Just wanted to point out that The First Iraq War 1914-1918: Britain's Mesopotamian Campaign by A. J. Barker is a new edition of Neglected War. It has a new introduction by Joseph Morrison Skelly but is otherwise the same as the original. The title of the US edition, which the anti-profanity checker has converted to ****** in James's post above, claimed that the war, rather than being Neglected, had parents who were not married to each other. General James Aylmer Haldane was GOC Mesopotamia after the war. His The Insurrection in Mesopotamia deals with the 1920 uprising rather than the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Posted 22 February , 2012 Share Posted 22 February , 2012 This is a book about the 13th Hussars in the Great War -- they were in Mesopotamia from 1916 http://www.naval-military-press.com/thirteenth-hussars-in-the-great-war.html My grandfather was a trooper in the regiment he's not mentioned in the book but is listed in the appendix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsyao Posted 23 February , 2012 Share Posted 23 February , 2012 "kut 1916 courage and failure in iraq" by patrick crowley http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0752454471/ref=olp_product_details/180-4232653-4306903?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yelob Posted 23 February , 2012 Share Posted 23 February , 2012 I would be interested in this campaign too as a man I am researching I believe was wounded at Beit Assra and I assume he was amongst those supplied from the air bu the RFC. If any of these books specifically mention Connaught Rangers I would be interested to know. Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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